I’ve never really believed in conspiracy theories. But if stuff like this is happening (and it is), this country is all but dead. Deep state indeed, it is reminiscent of the sclerotic, self-interested, corrupt, incompetent bureaucracy that has doomed so many great empires before, from Rome to China.

If even 1/10th of what Obama actually did was even hinted about a Republican president the media would never cease howling until that president was impeached, if not imprisoned. This guy deliberately weaponized the government against its own citizens in order to advance his ideological agenda. The federal government – at least at the appointed and SES levels – is almost wholly corrupt and dominated by members of the “elite” uniparty. They are eager participants in this “fundamental transformation.”

You can tell how close they thought they were to that transformation being permanent by the fury and inanity of their continuing meltdown over Nov 8 2016.

Good analysis from Stephan Molyneaux below, but there are some bad words:

If I were Trump I would fire most of the current upper level bureaucracy. Can union rules and friendly judges prevent that from happening?

How about replacing a lot of these bureaucrats with military personnel as Reagan did during the PATCO strike in ’81? Why not have 23 year old SPC4 Clint R. Petry from Tomkinsville, KY be a middle manager at the EPA for a while? I bet management would improve dramatically.